Sunday April 29, 2007
Obvious !!

This comment was first posted on CCM-L (Critical Care Medicine - List, an awesome email forum of intensivists, website is www.ccm-l.org).

We are reproducing the comment with permission, because of its beauty and description of essence of Critical Care Medicine so simply....While talking about sepsis...


"Well, the Rivers paper 1 stated what should have been standard operating procedure in all Emergency Departments. He just said let's all do it now".

David Crippen, MD, FCCM
Associate Professor
Department of Critical Care Medicine
Medical Director: Neurovascular Intensive Care Unit
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, PA 15261


Reference: click to get abstract

1. Early Goal-Directed Therapy in the Treatment of Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock - Volume 345:1368-1377, Number 19, November 8 2001, NEJM